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Date of source: Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The article sheds light on a study conducted by researcher Robier al-Farīs on the way folklore brings religions together. Al-Farīs also concluded that Coptic folklore suffers from the ignorance of researchers and the oppression of the church’s official culture as public creativity remains exquisite...
Date of source: Monday, July 14, 2008
This article critiques the hold that religious institutions have over Egyptians and argues that they are an obstacle to the creation of a cohesive Egyptian identity.
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2008
The head of the Middle East Freedom Forum Magdi Khalil lays out the goals, aims and methods of his new organization and beseeches Egyptians to support and encourage its work.
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2007
The author reviews a novel authored by Assil Bassili entitled, ‘Irini Passi.’
Date of source: Sunday, December 10, 2006
Hāzim
Munīr asserts that prohibiting non-Muslims from dealing with Faysal
Islamic Bank is religious discrimination
and consequently a violation of the Egyptian Constitution.
Date of source: Thursday, December 7, 2006
Sulaymān Jawdah denounces the exclusion
of Copts from trade of the Faysal Islamic Bank, and
warns of the dangerous impacts of isolating Copts from
public life in Egypt. He mentions that the standard system
of Faysal Islamic Bank violates the Egyptian
Constitution and calls for an urgent...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Following the announcement of
a festival for Christian
films, views of critics and film directors varied between opposing “religionizing” the
cinema and demanding
these movies to be screened in normal theatres for non-Christian viewers.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
The author investigates the practice of an international
football referee,
Muhammad al-Sayyīd, who has reportedly stopped several games in the football league to
listen to the
adhān.
Date of source: Thursday, August 10, 2006 to Wednesday, August 16, 2006
By far the majority of Muslims today live their lives without recourse to violence, for the Koran is like a pick-and-mix selection. If you want peace, you can find peaceable verses. If you want war, you can find bellicose verses. You can find verses which permit only defensive jihad, or you can...
Date of source: Monday, July 4, 2005
The Alexandria Film Festival is reflecting suppressed anger of many Copts in reaction to art works that pictured them and their affairs. They were outraged by works that covered their relations with their Muslim counterparts, like the “Awān al-Ward” series, reflecting how they placed paramount...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.